Chapter 18: The Ancient City

They were very happy when they saw the stone roof, but this kind of happiness did not last long, because they soon discovered a big problem, because the stone top was all sand, there was no way to expand horizontally, no matter how much sand was removed from the stone roof, there would always be a steady stream of sand flowing down.

Some men tried to dig a hole in the stone roof below the robbery cave, but after a few attempts, they found that it did not work at all, and the thickness and hard Cheng dù of the stone roof were completely different from the stone roof of an ordinary tomb. In this way, they had to infer the size of the burial chamber, look for the walls of the burial chamber, and then dig holes in the walls through guò to enter.

Exploring the location of the cave is the basic skill of going down to the ground, and it is not difficult for these people to infer the size of the tomb through the stone roof. They repositioned another point and began to make new holes.

This time it didn't disappoint everyone, and the thief hole hit the wall of the tomb very accurately and impartially. But this wall made them wonder, because it was not made of stone or brick, but of sand.

The old prostitute deliberately went down to check it out, and felt that something was wrong, it didn't feel like the wall of a tomb, but more like the old earthen wall in ancient times. And what puzzled him was that the stone roof above was indeed buckled to the sandy wall, but it was not at all logical.

Although it seemed to be unreasonable, they didn't hesitate too much, and soon made a hole in the sandy wall.

When they opened the hole, the old prostitute followed, and was surprised to find that it was not a tomb at all, but an ancient house.

It seems that this house has been buried here by the wind and sand for an unknown number of years, and all the debris in the house has been piled up on both sides of the wall, and there is a two-meter-wide passage in the middle that is very clean, as if the house has been cleaned, and the two-meter-wide passage leads to the outside of the house. The stone roof on the top of the house is buckled up, not the original roof, but more like it is buckled to seal the house.

The old prostitute walked down the aisle to the outside of the house to observe, and found that the air inside was okay, although there was a strong earthy smell, but after all, it was air, and it did not delay breathing.

After coming up, the old prostitute told her about the following situation. He suspected that there was an ancient city buried by wind and sand, and after this ancient city was buried, someone had entered it, and cleared a passage, and deliberately sealed the roof with a large stone, that is, the stone roof they saw when they first robbed the cave, and they thought it was the stone roof of the tomb at the time, but in fact, they misunderstood.

After listening to the old prostitute, the little wolf immediately went down, and after a few minutes, he came up and told the old prostitute and Tianxiang, get ready, it should be here.

Tianxiang made a new personnel arrangement, and a few people who had been fighting the robbery hole just now stayed on it as a reserve force. If something happens below, they might as well take rescue action as soon as possible, after all, the ancient cities below are buried under the sand, and once there is a landslide, they are likely to be trapped inside, so it is necessary to arrange a group of people on it just in case.

In fact, Tianxiang's arrangement is also for these people, who have been constantly playing the robbery hole during the day, and they didn't have a good rest last night, so let them be on it, so I want them to have a good rest. In addition, the camp must be manned.

Once the qiē was arranged, they ate their last meal on it and prepared to go down. Each person who goes down is equipped with a walkie-talkie and corresponding equipment, they use the walkie-talkie to maintain communication with the people above, on average every ten minutes to talk, one is to check whether the walkie-talkie can be used normally, and the other is to inform safety, if there is no call within 20 minutes, it proves that something has happened below, and the people above have to find a way to go down to the rescue.

It seemed like a safe arrangement, but it turned out to be a huge deviation from what they imagined. After exiting that house, they came to another house, where all the access was opened in a small area of collapsed houses. The further you go inside, the lower the terrain becomes, and the passage is simply a slow slope.

At first, they had been following the passage and walked smoothly, but when they reached the first house with two different passages, they began to become confused.

There are two passages in different directions in front of them, and they have to choose one of them as the direction they are going. After deciding which one to take, the wolf left a mark at the entrance of the hole he had chosen.

The further they go, the more passageways they can choose from in the house in front of them, and in the face of more and more choices, they can only mark and choose the most forward passage to advance.

On the surface, this seems to be the right thing to do, but they still take a lot of wrong paths, and several times they turn back to the places they have walked before. They think that those useless passages are likely to be a maze deliberately opened by their predecessors, and they don't want latecomers to find a deep location.

They walked around for more than three hours before they came to a different kind of large house, the only masonry house they had encountered along the way.

It is more appropriate to say that it is not so much a house as a temple, and in addition to the tall architectural space, there are stone statues on both sides of the hall.

These statues are so weird that one can feel an inexplicable sense of fear at a glance.

The old prostitute said that he had never seen this kind of statue, like a man but not a man, like a god but not a god, just with the appearance of a person, but without a human soul, and all of them were bareheaded, teeth and claws, and there was a feeling that the sky was not afraid of the earth.

The old prostitute thinks that these statues are likely to be gods worshiped by the tribe, or a totemic sign.

Since he walked here for more than three hours, Tianxiang decided to take a rest here, after all, everyone needs to recover and replenish some nutrients.

The old prostitute and the little wolf took advantage of their rest to look at the surrounding passages, and the wife found that the houses around this temple were all brick and stone structures, and it seemed that this was a large courtyard. Although it can't be compared with the courtyard of the ancient Central Plains, it can be called super large here.

There are several rooms in the room, which are quite magnificently furnished, especially a few bedrooms, all of which are typical of the Western Regions. The walls are not only decorated with colorful paint, but also with some ornate ornaments. Although the house is dilapidated, it can still be seen that the owner of the house has some wealth and rights.

The old prostitute guessed that the owner of this courtyard was likely to be the lord of this ancient city.

After turning a few rooms with the little wolf, the old prostitute found that something was wrong here, so she called the little wolf to stop and asked the little wolf if he had seen anything with words.

The little wolf told the old prostitute that he was also looking for something about words, but he found that the things with words here seemed to have been taken away, and there was nothing left of them.

The little wolf suspects that the passages that keep them spinning in circles are not a maze deliberately designed by someone, but to collect the things with words in those houses, which is why so many passages are made.

The old prostitute thought about it and felt that what the little wolf said made some sense, if it was really a maze, then the design should be a little more complicated, and it would not be as simple as what they passed through. And one of the main reasons is that all the things about words in this ancient city are indeed missing.

This situation is obviously man-made, and it cannot be a natural phenomenon, after all, any ancient country, or any tribe, will have its own language and script.

While the two of them were discussing the matter of writing, the people on the other side of the hall were in an uproar, and they didn't know what was going on there, and the old prostitute and the little wolf immediately walked back.

When the two of them walked back to the temple, they saw a hole in the stone wall behind the temple, and several people were looking inside around the hole.

The old prostitute walked quickly to the entrance of the cave and asked the others to find out what was going on.

It turned out that during the time when he and the little wolf went to other rooms, there was a guy from Tianxiang who found that the color of the stone wall in this part was slightly different. The guy walked over to check it out, and immediately noticed that the stone wall in this position was wrong, and it was built from the back. And judging from the traces of the masonry, it was judged that this should have been a gate. After Tianxiang saw it, he asked the guy to get it away.

The old prostitute looked down and looked inside, it was really different.

At this point, the old prostitute paused, I poured him a bowl of water, and he said to me: "Xiao Qi, you will never think of it, what is behind the hole?" ”

"Alright! At this time, you don't sell it, just say what you have. I said impatiently.

The old prostitute went on to say that at the back of the hall was a huge garden, several times larger than the space of the hall where they were located, with rockeries, bonsai, and trees, and to his surprise were the three big trees inside.

The three big trees grew very thick, like Optimus Prime towering in the garden, even the smallest one, ten people could not be embraced, and the three big trees were not dead trees, they were all old trees that were still growing, and there were green branches and leaves at the top of the trees.

What is the name of this ancient tree and what kind of breed, this old prostitute is not clear, and he has seen it for the first time. But one thing he could see clearly was that it was the dense foliage of these three ancient trees that supported the sand layer above, so that the garden was not completely buried.

Tianxiang and Kui Ye and two other guys were already in the garden, and the little wolf and the old prostitute did not hesitate to go directly into the hole.

After waiting inside, the old prostitute saw more clearly, it turned out that the reason why these three ancient trees could support the sand layer above was because their branches and leaves had already been entangled together, like messy twine, inseparable.

After observing the ancient tree that surprised him, the old prostitute walked towards Tianxiang and Kui Ye, who were both looking down at something from the rockery.